very dirty wmata train

"Oh are we experimenting with a new all brown livery? Lemme snap a pic!"

Chat, it just needs a wash.

Correct take.

When we see governors just up and decide to build big highway projects, they can get it done inside one term.

Our long planning processes exist to paralyze change, and we need to stop accepting that as the natural order of the universe.

Correct take.

When we see governors just up and decide to build big highway projects, they can get it done inside one term.

Our long planning processes exist to paralyze change, and we need to stop accepting that as the natural order of the universe.

Foggy Bottom annexing Arlington? IYKYK

GGWash needs a new Breakfast Links curator. Would you be interested?

Details: secure.everyaction.com/rSDZI2e5QUqH... @ggwash.org

Unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as "actual" neighborhood names or boundaries. Neighborhoods are inherently colloquial and however the common usage of them evolves, that's reality.

Somewhere in the annals of time, a nameless bureaucrat saved us from WART.

Would you like to buy a #DCStreetcar?

www.streetcarcoalition.org/washington-d...

Will your plan include Boulder's unique CTN?

Here’s why “urbanist Twitter” was in a tizzy over the aerial tramway emoji There are hundreds of emojis, yet most of the time, we find ourselves sticking to the classics—an innocent smiley face, a cute puppy, or perhaps a simple heart. Some emojis are so obscure, it's diffic...

In the truly unthinkable event you don't recall hyper specific 2018 twitter transitsphere memes, here's the contemporary explainer:

ggwash.org/view/70054/h...

Weekend Update: Red Heart and Aerial Tramway Emojis on Apple's New Emojis Release - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Remember in 2018 when we all tweeted the aerial tramway emoji over & over to defend public transit's honor? 🚡🚡🚡🚡🚡🚡

SNL just joined that discourse.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=pir...

🎯

DC adds an average of 5,300 new housing units per year.

Kenyan McDuffie's big plan is 12,000 new units by 2030. That's slower than the status quo!

If that doesn't tell you what you need to know about McDuffie, IDK what will.

hit.housingand.org/jurisdiction...

Wanna speak again this year?

Janeese Lewis George, GGWash's pick for DC mayor, outlines her plan to build more housing in the District.

That's the earliest news event I remember too

We are getting an entire new bike/ped bridge with this project.

Early Long Bridge plans circa 2013 included streetcar tracks explicitly to connect the DC & Arlington networks

DC Streetcar

Good night, sweet prince

To the death of a dream: RIP DC Streetcar DC Streetcar ends today. We failed the streetcar as much as the streetcar failed us.

Farewell eulogy for the idealistic #DCStreetcar.
You taught us that if we want strong transit, we must care enough to actually make transit strong.
ggwash.org/view/102541/...

Hawarden Apartment Building

Gladstone Apartment Building

The Council just passed legislation to allow single-stair and single-entrance apartment buildings up to six stories in DC.

Allowing single-stair buildings:
✅ Reduces housing construction costs
✅ Enables housing on narrow city lots
✅ Facilitates more family-sized units

The bill passed unanimously.

Exact spot:

maps.app.goo.gl/HZPabbksLvb9...

To the death of a dream: RIP DC Streetcar DC Streetcar ends today. We failed the streetcar as much as the streetcar failed us.

Farewell eulogy for the idealistic #DCStreetcar.
You taught us that if we want strong transit, we must care enough to actually make transit strong.
ggwash.org/view/102541/...

They will be auctioned. It's possible another city will buy them but who knows who'll be the highest bidder.

Barbenheimer DC Metro Edition @wmata.com @wmatagm.bsky.social

People are getting their last #DCStreetcar rides in. Overhearing a lot of wistful sighs. One woman going on about being sad. Closes tomorrow.

And hiding it all behind a hill--making it unwalkable from the main street--so 7 existing homeowners don't have to see neighbors in a city is just insanely stupid.

Right. McDuffie has been in office a long time. We know how he operates. It's exactly the same as Bowser. If that status quo is what you want, fine, but pretending it's anything but that is just nonsense.

Not a super subtle subtweet.

Metro opened in 1976 with 5 stations.
By one year later, there were 24 stations.
By ten years later, there were 61.

Imagine what an unthinkable failure it would have been if after that decade it still had only the original 5.

#DCstreetcar